Surface Quotes - Page 5

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

To touch the surface is to stir the depths.

Whether it is photography, assemblage art or filmmaking, my work is to see beneath the surface.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.

I must say that I am not very genteel and I feel that gentility has a stranglehold: the neatness, the wonderful tidiness, which is so evident everywhere in England is perhaps more dangerous than it would appear on the surface.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

Every angle acknowledges that it is a likeness of true angularity, for [each angle] is angle not insofar as angle exists in itself but insofar as angle exists in something else, viz., in a surface. And so, true angularity is present in creatable and depictable angles as in a likeness of itself.

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences.

God made solids, but surfaces were the work of the devil.

Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you on the surface.